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Allahabad High Court

MOHD KHALID AND ANOTHERversusSTATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER

Decided

Holding

The appeal is dismissed as not pressed.

Summary

The appellants, Mohd Khalid and another, filed a criminal appeal against the State of U.P. and another. Their counsel, Istyak Khan, informed the court that the dispute had been amicably settled outside the court and that they did not wish to pursue the appeal. The court, upon receiving this statement, dismissed the criminal appeal as not pressed. The order was recorded in the presence of the learned Additional Government Advocate for the State. No substantive legal arguments or evidence were considered beyond the settlement claim.

Issues considered

  • Whether a criminal appeal can be dismissed as not pressed when the parties settle the dispute out of court

Subjects

  • criminal appeal
  • settlement
  • not pressed
  • dismissal

Judgment

                                             HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD

                                                     CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 11022 of 2025

                                    Mohd Khalid And Another
                                                                                                 .....Appellant(s)
                                                                       Versus
                                    State of U.P. and Another
                                                                                               .....Respondent(s)

                                    Counsel for Appellant(s)         : Istyak Khan, Sheikh Saaduddin Sazaly
                                    Counsel for Respondent(s)        : Ankita Gupta, Balram Pratap, G.A.

                                    Court No. - 51
                                                       HON'BLE MADAN PAL SINGH, J.

                                    1. Sri Istyak Khan, learned counsel for the appellants submits that the
                                    dispute between the parties has been amicably settled outside the Court and
                                    he does not wish to press the present criminal revision. He, therefore, prays
                                    that the present appeal may be dismissed as not pressed.

                                    2. In view of the statement made by learned counsel for the appellant, the
                                    present criminal appeal is dismissed as not pressed.

                                    3. This order has passed in the presence learned AGA for the State.

                                    April 23, 2026
                                    Akbar
                                                                                          (Madan Pal Singh,J.)




Digitally signed by :-
MOHAMMAD AKBAR
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad


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